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Yes if you do come across some different and unique seed coats in your crosses and want to donate some seed I would definitely be interested.

I would say that the grower of the outcross usually can keep the outcrossed seed. Sometimes the grower will send some of the outcrossed seed back if the seed coat is really something different or unique.

It has bean a hard year for beans. Especially bush beans. June was brutally hot with hardly a drop of rain. July gave us a little bit of teaser rains. I watered beans for about two months each week. About a week and a half ago we got 4 inches, 10 cm of rain in 3 days. The soil was so wet that my...

Seeds with split seed coats have been germination tested by me and another grow I know in Iowa and found that the beans do grow.

I checked my freezer files and there were no new entries made for the bean last year. Actually Dule is not listed at all on my freezer files so all the packets that I had were sent out. You will be the only grower that will be returning Dule. Other growers failed to make returns.

I've also grown Bela Putersnica this year and it is loaded with beautiful yellow pods. The plants are just lush looking.

Yes send seed back with the note they are pole beans. The original grower probably grew them nearly 10 years ago. I don't remember at that time if they told me they were pole or bush. It must have been bush because that what I listed them as. If the pods haven't gotten seedy yet try a couple...

It is interesting to note that among all the pole beans that I have planted. I'm getting the best results from the direct seeded beans with the exception of once again the limas. The limas have really taken well to being prestarted in a container and then transplanted. Many of my Phasolus...

2025 Network Bean Returns I'm going to ask every one who are growing Network beans this year and who reads this thread. Not to return your beans until after January 1, 2026. I will be leaving Illinois In late October and will be gone to Florida for November and half of December. I will...

Oxford ! Yes I have to also add your photos are real beauties and yes calender worthy. Glad you found us and any other new bean enthusiasts that have come onboard in the last few months. Welcome to all of you.

Yes I would remove it so the running habit doesn't get into your other true bush beans. Personally I like to keep my true bush types just as they are. I don't grow bush types near anything that climbs. I think I found one runner bean among my Blue Jay this year and I removed it.

Three years of drought how awful. I hope the one year old drought we are having here doesn't go that long. We are in moderate drought but with the heat that we have had this summer if I had not watered all my beans I'm sure would be dead by now. I haven't watered now for two weeks and tomorrows...

I picked a couple of Apple Creek pods yesterday and steam cooked them. They were stringless. They are not growing in a good spot this year. They are getting only the afternoon sun. The pods are not looking very uniform in shape. I will grow them again next year and give them a sunny spot. I...

I got a surprise in my bean garden today. A bean that I got this past winter from a grower in Nanoose Bay, BC. It must be a bush that I thought might be a pole bean. So I started it early along with the pole beans and it produced some pods and blossomed long before any of the pole beans started...

I think I'm having a rather odd bean year. Early part of the season was dry and I watered. We have gotten more rain lately and I have not watered in about two weeks. However I planted in my backyard 8 varieties of snap beans early in June. Usually those snap pods a pickable by the 7th or 8th of...

All beans have that inner white membrane inside the pods. I think that is to help the growing pod maintain moisture while the seeds are developing. When the pods become dry some varieties the white membrane breaks up easily and it flys all over during shelling. Some varieties the membrane stays...

What is the longest you can harvest the pods and still have them tender?

San Fiarce here was the first pole bean to climb in the plot where other pole beans are growing. The beans in this particular plot were all direct seeded. SF was also the first of these beans to bloom. I'm growing only one poles worth ( 4 plants). I'm going to try a few pods as a snap bean when...

Went out to my Bean Acres offsite today behind the deer fence to see what 2.5 inches of rain in about 30 minutes did to my pole beans. I looked at my Rain Gauge that I put there at the beginning of spring. Wow 3.3 inches of rain in about a 30 minutes. I probably won't have to water the rest of...

In 2023 I early started In Styrofoam cups about 8 varieties of pole limas. They did great. This year in general the best beans are the ones that have been direct seeded. South Flowerbed June 29th. South Flowerbed July 11. It's amazing the the beans can grow as fast as they do. I have never...